Now in its eighth season, ABC sitcom Modern Family makes a significant move in terms of casting diversity. The show will feature eight-year-old Jackson Millarker, television’s first openly transgender child actor.

Earlier this month, Rolling Stone published a piece on Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace that was accompanied by a photo of Grace lying naked from the waist up in a bathtub. Though not the first time a famous woman has been photographed topless for the magazine, it might just be the first time the woman’s nipples…

When it was reported earlier in March that a transgender woman named Jenna Talackova would be a finalist in the Miss Universe Canada pageant, it seemed a fine, sunny day for the LGBT community, as Talackova's inclusion in the finals represented at least one step in the direction of wider social acceptance for…